Want change? Then be prepared to vote

Published 12:00 am, Friday, February 5, 2016

Many, many Americans are exasperated with government “as usual.” Many, many Americans are infuriated by a culture and an economy which have evolved into massive socialistic, entitlement agencies. Many, many Americans are disconcerted by a progressive Big Brother administration which is encroaching on their individual rights.

The question becomes: Is “many, many” going to be adequate enough to turn the “troubling tides” and channel the status quo into a productive direction for the “many, many” in 2016?

The “good old (white) boys” domination, the “pull yourself up by your own boot straps,” the “rugged individualism” majority mentality and mantras of the early to mid-20th Century have waned less and less viable. These slogans have been gradually, insidiously displaced by the mindset of a population that depends on — no, demands — that the government gives it a “hand out” rather than a “hand up.” And the minorities’ numbers are there to support the coup.

Is it any wonder then, that the “many, many” displeased portion of our citizenry is looking for a maverick, a renegade, a “knight in shining armor” to surge forward into the fray and restore what it considers to be the sentiments and intentions of our Founding Fathers and Mothers?

Americans can conduct all the political debates and primaries and tea parties, and form all the PACs, and take all the polls it desires — yet, if those who choose the status quo outnumber those who clamor for drastic change vote in the 2016 presidential election — the former will win again.

Voting is the only way change can be effected, so it’s not too early to admonish: Get out and vote in November if you want to get what you want! It’s going to take, “many, many, many, many” ballots to change the course of current events.